Buy New iPad and Restore from iPhone Backup?

[Pseudo-Fed]

Can the experts please confirm. I believe I read that as long as IOS versions are the same, I can buy a new iPad Pro 10.5 and restore from an iPhone 8+ backup running same IOS?

What happens if some apps not iPad compatible? What happens for settings not compatible?

Your help appreciated.

 

[mofunk]

I recently used the Quick Start feature to set up my iPad Pro (see link below). If you are setting up a new iOS device, you can use your iPhone that has iOS 11 installed to use Apple's Quick Start. Once you turn on your iPad, during the set up process it will ask you if you have an iPhone or another iPad that you want to use to set up your iPad. It was a quick process. The only thing I think I had to do was enter a few passwords for security, Apple Pay, and do the fingerprint scan.

It will give you the options of restoring from back up. I think you can chose from any device you have in the cloud. I opted not to do that which eliminates me downloading any 3rd party apps. Quick Start will install your Mac Mail account only, iCal, Address Book,

Quick Start will automatically enter any wifi passwords for you too. This feature still works when you are at another location where you had used their wifi before with your iPhone. For example, I visited a relative's home with my iPhone and iPad. After logging onto my iPad, a window popped up asking if I wanted to use this wifi since it was already added to my iPhone. So now whenever I visit places where I've entered the wifi password on my iPhone, the iPad can connect to it too without having to enter the passwords.

As for Apps, I didn't want to restore from backup because there are some Apps that I did not need thats on my iPhone. So I manually chose the ones from iCloud. If it's not compatible it will not install. For example, Instagram is an iPhone App, so you won't be able to use that.


https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202033

 

[akash.nu]

As long as the backup was done on same or older iOS versions.

1. If an app is not compatible, it won’t install.
2. There’s nothing called incompatible settings. If the criteria for backup is met then everything will just work.

 

[Saskat]

Not an Apple expert but I know from very recent first hand experience yes you can. Just be aware some apps' phone versions do not look good on an iPad.

 

[Pseudo-Fed]

Success. Restored from 8+ Encrypted iTunes backup. Warning about some incompatible apps and in fact they didn’t load. Of course had to fiddle with photos and music after separately. But the most annoying thing that didn’t work like moving from 7+ to X to 8+ were the app icons. None were in my folders and they were scattered over 10 pages. Took forever to get them organized! Happy overall though.

Got the Logitech slim combo case/keyboard. Like it so far due to backlighting and shortcut keys, but it’s not a “slim” combo.....

 

[mofunk]

Sweet. This is why I just downloaded the apps from iCloud. All the extra moving is ugh nasty lol Moving photos for me seems to be easier if I download them to my MacBook and then transfer back. This way you can pick and chose which ones you want on the iPad and iPhone.

Did you try the Quick Start Method?

 

[Pseudo-Fed]

Sweet. This is why I just downloaded the apps from iCloud. All the extra moving is ugh nasty lol Moving photos for me seems to be easier if I download them to my MacBook and then transfer back. This way you can pick and chose which ones you want on the iPad and iPhone.

Did you try the Quick Start Method?

Negative. Just did iTunes restore since I was practiced with that after 7+—>X—->8+, and all with two apple watches to unpair/repair.......